Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)
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In what is becoming an almost daily occurrence, ERCOT issued another appeal for voluntary conservation as the Texas grid operator continues to manage tight conditions during a brutally hot summer.
Admin Monitor
Texas regulators and ERCOT stakeholders are celebrating a year-long study of aggregated distributed energy resources that has resulted in two virtual power plants qualified and able to provide dispatchable power to the state’s grid.
Broad Reach Power
ERCOT stakeholders endorsed the charter and leadership for a task force that will report to the Technical Advisory Committee and provide recommendations on real-time co-optimization and energy storage resources’ state of charge.
Tomer Burg/PolarWx
SPP set a new record for summer peak demand, the first of several that could come this week with a heat dome settled over the Great Plains.
Office of the Texas Governor
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed the PUC to study how to position the state "as the national leader on advanced nuclear energy."
U.S. Census Bureau
ERCOT has seen its electricity demand explode along with the growth of Texas' population and economy.
LG Energy Solution
Vistra CEO Jim Burke said Luminant’s generating fleet has performed well amid Texas’ ongoing heat wave, which has led to multiple demand records this summer.
Steven Baltakatei Sandoval, CC BY-SA-4.0, via Wikimedia
EPA received comments on its proposal to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants, with some, including ISO/RTOs, arguing the proposal needed major improvements to preserve reliability.
ABC13's Travis Herzog via Facebook
The ERCOT grid continues to operate under normal conditions, the grid operator said, even as this summer’s peak demand is 4.3% higher than last summer’s.
Public Utility Commission of Texas
Texas regulators have approved ERCOT’s proposed modifications to the operating reserve demand curve that are designed to retain and attract dispatchable generation.
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